Word: yawned
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...Southern leaders have not risen up in anger. Their inclination is to yawn, keep their congressional seniority in the party of their fathers and, perhaps, let Ike carry their states...
...stretch-out in the arms program began to look like a yawn-out. The military, which had been placing orders at a $5-billion-a-month clip last October and had planned to settle down to $4 billion a month, was now issuing contracts for only $2.8 billion a month. Actual deliveries of military goods, instead of increasing, were running at a rate of only $2 billion a month, unchanged since last September. Furthermore, though the U.S. was expected to run a deficit of $14 billion this fiscal year, it was temporarily running a cash surplus-another deflationary factor...
...University of Oklahoma, announced that he had invented a device to enable teachers to tell whether their charges are interested in their work or not. He strings wires generating an electromagnetic field to the backs of classroom chairs, connects them to a special paper chart. When pupils yawn and wiggle, their boredom will promptly show up-as waves and jiggles on the chart...
...Dona Ana, the Commander's daughter whose seduction led to the slaying, has just died. She is indignant and aghast at having been consigned to the underworld; even the discovery that her father is moving there by choice does not appease her-better, as she sees it, to yawn in Heaven than revel in Hell. This, she is told, is not the fashionable view: Heaven is so dull that almost no one but the English can endure it. Hell, run by an urbane Devil who is as eager to please as a resort-hotel proprietor, is itself a kind...
...debutantes' parties and in back alleys-for the girl with that irresistible appeal. The girls in the Hollywood harem today are, inch for inch, at least as voluptuous as their predecessors. But that jaded sultan-the U.S. public-has lately been turning his head away with a yawn...